With a thorny ethical dilemma at its core and clever use of its natural surroundings, Thordur Palsson’s “The Damned” is a film concerned with moral and physical claustrophobia. Taking place ...

Despite the 19th-century setting, there are distinct echoes of The Thing in this chilly horror. Working from an elegantly minimal script by Jamie Hannigan (who also wrote Pilgrimage), the Icelandic ...

Set in the late 1800s against the unforgiving backdrop of Iceland’s Westfjords, the film follows a crew of fishermen who ...

This is especially felt in the hands of cinematographer Eli Arenson, who previously did good work on the much less successful ...

A profound element of The Damned ’s harsh realism is that Eva is never clad in “final girl” rags, but in the same working ...

Inspired by the dramatic landscape of the Westfjords of Iceland in the 1800s and the region’s folklore, the psychological ...

Mufasa: The Lion King clawed its way past Sonic the Hedgehog 3 in a tightly contested race and won the No. 1 spot at the box ...

A chilling folk-horror thriller which reconfirms that January is often a fertile time for under-the-radar genre fare, The Damned, which hits theaters Jan. 3, tells a sinister campfire tale of guilt, ...

The slow-burn approach to horror has proven to be an effective means of winding the tension and terror until what’s often an ...